Word: technicolorful
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...give his slow story some contrapuntal rhythm and social significance, Lelouch cuts from shots of the triangle (filmed in Technicolor), to monochromatic scenes of conflict in Africa and Asia, presumably covered by the hero. The vulgar-cliche style of these sequences can only be described in Nabokov's term, "poshlost." The reporter self-righteously editorializes: "The Nazis tortured because of a guilty conscience from oppressing Europe during the war . . . In Viet Nam, the U.S. is in the same situation ..." Meanwhile the horrors of battle are shown in pictures as stilted as window displays, the blood stylistically spattered...
...mindless daily violence of the American '60s and an esthetic evocation of the past. Yet it observes the '30s not as lived but as remembered, the perspective rippled by the years to show that there are mirages of time as well as space. The nostalgic Technicolor romanticism alters reality, distorting it as a straight stick under water appears to be bent...
...belle, Julie Harris is the only member of the cast who reflects the distinctive McCullers quality of loneliness and terror. The others are merely mannerists. All that remains praiseworthy is the film's extraordinary photographic technique. Seemingly shot in black and white, the picture is actually severely muted Technicolor. Thus from time to time, faded reds and golds seep through the images to give them an eerie, trance-like quality...
...Tiger Makes Out concerns a 42-year old mailman, and he is not played by Paul Newman or George Peppard. Eli Wallach squnched-in face and all, stars in this major, technicolor release. His wife, Anne Jackson, co-stars, and they are backed up by a cadre of New York-based actors, most of whom you'll recognize from Naked City and Car 54, Where...
...career, he proved he could play a U.N.'s worth of accents and roles. Lately, however, his roles have been playing him, a familiar figure afflicted by gigantosis of the production and paralysis of the talent. Unlike his black-and-white delights of the '50s, this Technicolor collage substitutes fake eccentricity for true humor. One man wears a toupee that looks like melted LPs, another drinks nothing but brandy and egg whites-it looks as if someone had expectorated in it, says Sellers, in a fair sample of the film's scripted wit. And nearly everybody speaks...